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Omara Portuondo - Full Concert | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2008

Buena Vista Social Club ft. Omara Portuondo - Full Concert | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2008 FRIDAY 11 JULY 2008 • AMAZON • Rotterdam Ahoy, The Netherlands LINEUP Omara Portuondo (vocals); Swami Jr. (musical director, guitar); Harold Lopez Nussa (piano); Felipe Cabrera (double bass); Andrés Coayo, Rodney Yllarza Barreto (percussion). ABOUT At this year's festival, Omara Portuondo will sing songs from her forthcoming album Gracias, on which the grand old lady of Cuban music takes her listeners through her entire, powerful career. The emphasis is naturally on the "filin", an exotic blend of Afro-Cuban, Latin and vocal jazz, but her favorite song is there as well: the Chilean Gracias a la Vida - Thanks to Life. Omara Portuondo is one of the most colorful and famous singers in Cuba. For years she fronted the famous Cuban revue group Tropicana and the legendary Orquesta Aragon. And last but not least: she is the only woman of the old Buena Vista Social Club to enjoy worldwide fame through her melancholic yet swinging Cuban music. The singer, now well into her seventies, is justifiably a living legend. She sings of lost and tragic love with passion and a fitting quiver in her voice. Omara Portuondo, also spelled Portuando, (born October 29, 1930 in Havana) is a Cuban singer. Portuondo was born in October 1930 in Havana, one of three sisters. Her mother, from a wealthy Spanish family, had caused a scandal by eloping with and marrying a black professional baseball player. Omara began her career in 1945 as a dancer at Havana's Tropicana Club (following her sister, Haydee). The two sisters sang for family and friends and were briefly involved in a band called Loquibambla Swing. In 1952, together with two friends (Elena Bourke and Moraima Secada), they formed the vocal group Cuarteto las d'Aida, accompanied by pianist Aida Diestro. They were moderately successful, touring the United States, appearing with Nat King Cole at the Tropicana, and recording an album for RCA Victor. In 1959, Portuondo recorded a solo album, Magia Negra, in which she combined jazz with Cuban music. This was not the beginning of her solo career, because although Haydee left the group in 1961 to live in the United States, Omara continued to sing with Cuarteto las d'Aida until 1967. In 1967, Portuondo started her own business and represented Cuba that same year at the Sopot Festival in Poland, where she sang Juanito Marquez's "Como un Milagro". In addition to her solo work, she sang with the charanga band Orquesta Aragón in the 1970s, touring communist and non-communist countries. In 1974, she recorded one of her most controversial albums with guitarist Martin Rojas, on which she pays tribute to Salvador Allende and the Chilean people, a year after General Pinochet's coup d'état. She praises, among other things, the work of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in "Hasta Siempre". In the 1970s and 1980s, Portuondo enjoyed some success both inside and outside Cuba, with tours, albums (including her unparalleled collaboration with Adalberto Alvarez in 1984), films, and her own television series. After that, her popularity declined. Portuondo sang duets with Ibrahim Ferrer on the 1996 album Buena Vista Social Club and appeared in the Wim Wenders film of the same name. This led not only to more tours (including a performance at Carnegie Hall with the BVSC) but also to two new albums for the World Circuit label: Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo (2000) and Flor de Amor (2004). In July 2005, she performed with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg at the Berlin Festival Classic Open Air am Gendarmenmarkt before an audience of 7,000. The entire program was specially arranged for the occasion by Roberto Sánchez Ferrer, a conductor-pianist with whom she worked during the early years at Havana's Tropicana Club. Scott Lawton was the conductor. In 2011, Portuondo released an album with pianist Chucho Valdés of the band Irakere. Welcome to the official North Sea Jazz Archive! On our channel you will find live performances and interviews of Jazz Legends like Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Maceo Parker, Herbie Hancock and many more, who have performed at the legendary North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands Watch more videos 👉 https://bit.ly/MoreNSJArchive Subscribe now 👉 https://bit.ly/SubscribeNSJArchive Website 👉 https://www.northseajazz.com Thanks for all your support. Rating the video and leaving a comment is always appreciated! Please: respect each other in the comments. This is the official YouTube channel of North Sea Jazz Archive